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I believe that it is by UK law, yes. That said, I'm not exactly an expert on bestiality laws, so I could be wrong.

^yeah, it's illegal to even possess images of beastiality, let alone showing it on tv or doing the act itself

THIS IS NO MERE PENIS.

Well it seems there's going to be more than 2episodes for this one. Yay.

I'm watching it now. Is anyone else very amused by the familiarity of this?

The third episode was excellent. The second is still my favourite, but the third reminds me of how many people use Facebook, and scientists already have the technology to record things with our eyes like that and they're looking to bring it to market in the not-too-distant future. Scary stuff.

I recognised the tendency to churn over old memories to extract new meaning. I'm still learning stuff from conversations over a year old. When I was younger I would've ruined everything exactly the way the guy did too. Exactly that way.

Except remember that human memories are quite unreliable. Unless you happen to have the gift of an eidetic memory, your brain makes s**t up and can easily be tricked into believing things that aren't true. They mentioned this in the episode, and it is true.

But yeah, I think if this technology was commonplace today, those tendencies would be made a lot worse by it, as they already are by social networking.

I think autistic memories are different, eidetic or not.

Well it depends on the individual, but that's how human memories tend to work. I bet a psychologist could still use leading questions to mess with your memory, though.

Not mine, but I doubt other aspies either. Episodic memory works differently for us. NT memories are hooked to emotions. Given that our memories are at least as good and they aren't hooked in the same way... [a small leap to some reasonable conclusion]

Interesting point. I notice mine isn't really linked to time, either - I can't pinpoint my "earliest memory", for example.

I don't know, I think that the human memory is fundamentally flawed because it seems to work on the same basis as our imaginations. But then some people are wired differently, so they might have lucked out with a more reliable memory.